Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yang arrived in Sacred Pill City and sensed Three Thousand Burning Flame in the Inner Region, then went to a Pill Tower branch to seek an Alchemist assessment. After revealing his Spirit Realm Peak Soul Power, he drew the attention of a Seventh-grade Alchemist.

• Xiao Yang and his companions arrived at a spatial plaza in Sacred Pill City's Outer Region, where he sensed Three Thousand Burning Flame in the Inner Region.
• The elder guarding the Star Region sensed that someone was watching the flame and reported his concern to Pill Tower's leaders.
• Xiao Yang settled the women into lodging, then went to a Pill Tower branch to obtain an Alchemist grade and badge.
• At the assessment desk, Xiao Yang released True Fire and a trace of his Soul Power to qualify for a higher-grade assessment.
• Xiao Yang's Soul Pressure overwhelmed many nearby Alchemists, prompting an elderly Seventh-grade Alchemist to approach him.

Xiao Yang sought an Eighth-grade Alchemist assessment at a Pill Tower branch, but Steward Liu Qin explained that he first needed Seventh-grade Alchemist status. Xiao Yang’s astonishing Soul Power score impressed Liu Qin, who advanced him to the pill-refining portion of the assessment.

• Liu Qin greeted Xiao Yang and explained that the branch could only assess him up to the Seventh-grade High-level, while the Eighth-grade assessment required going to the Inner Region.
• Xiao Yang asked Liu Qin to conduct the Seventh-grade High-level assessment, and Liu Qin led him to the special Heaven-grade testing room.
• Liu Qin demonstrated the Soul Power test and explained that a score above five hundred was required.
• Xiao Yang scored 9678 on the Soul Power test, leaving Liu Qin shocked by how close his soul realm seemed to the Heavenly Soul.
• Liu Qin waived the soul-control test and offered Xiao Yang three Seventh-grade High-level Pill Recipes to choose from for the refining test.

Xiao Yang took the Seventh-grade High-level Alchemist assessment by refining a Nine Yuan Turtle Breath Pill and easily withstanding its Pill Lightning. After Liu Qin confirmed the pill’s quality, Xiao Yang passed and received his badge and purple alchemist robes.

• Liu Qin explained the assessment and offered Xiao Yang three pill recipes, and Xiao Yang chose the Nine Yuan Turtle Breath Pill.
• Xiao Yang used his Heavenly Profound Cauldron and Origin Fire, putting all the medicinal materials into the cauldron at once as Liu Qin watched.
• Xiao Yang completed the pill as red Pill Lightning gathered over the Branch Tower.
• Xiao Yang let the Pill Lightning strike him, and Liu Qin saw that he remained unharmed.
• Xiao Yang presented the high-grade Nine Yuan Turtle Breath Pill to Liu Qin, who awarded him a Seventh-grade High-level Alchemist Badge and purple alchemist robes.

After earning his Seventh-grade High-level Alchemist badge, Xiao Yang moved with Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa to a residence in Sacred Pill City's Inner Region while awaiting an Eighth-grade Alchemist assessment. When Liu Qin visited, he discovered that Xiao Yang's homemade Spirit Tea could slightly increase Soul Power.

• Xiao Yang accepted his Alchemist Badge and robe from Liu Qin, then agreed to let Liu Qin arrange an Eighth-grade Alchemist assessment.
• Liu Qin advised Xiao Yang to move to the Inner Region, where high-level alchemists could access better residences and facilities.
• Xiao Yang brought Xiao Yi Xian and the others to a Small Courtyard Liu Qin had found for him, with a medicinal garden, Cultivation Room, and Alchemy Room.
• Xiao Yang spent the next two days cultivating with Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa before Liu Qin visited.
• Liu Qin drank Xiao Yang's Spirit Tea and realized it slightly increased Soul Power; Xiao Yang explained that he made it from old True Spirit Grass and leaves from ten-thousand-year-old Spirit Marrow Fruit Trees.

Xiao Yang traded his Soul Power-enhancing spirit tea to Liu Qin for High-level Medicinal Materials, and learned that Xuan Kongzi would personally assess him for Eighth-grade Alchemist status. Three days later, Liu Qin brought him to the Pill Tower, where Xuan Kongzi greeted the remarkably young Xiao Yang.

• Xiao Yang agreed to trade spirit tea for High-level Medicinal Materials, and Liu Qin exchanged some of his stock for it.
• Liu Qin told Xiao Yang that Xuan Kongzi would personally conduct his Eighth-grade Alchemist Assessment in three days.
• Three days later, Liu Qin escorted Xiao Yang through the guarded Pill Tower to Xuan Kongzi's hall.
• Xuan Kongzi welcomed Xiao Yang and recognized that he was only around twenty years old.

Xiao Yang began his Eighth-grade Alchemist Assessment under Xuan Kongzi, choosing to refine the difficult Five-colored Life Continuation Pill. The assessment started in a specially equipped alchemy room, where Xiao Yang prepared to refine the pill with his own cauldron and flames.

• Xuan Kongzi dismissed Liu Qin and asked Xiao Yang what level of Eighth-grade Pill he would attempt.
• Xiao Yang chose to refine a pill with Five-colored Pill Lightning and selected the Life Continuation Pill from Xuan Kongzi’s two recipes.
• Xuan Kongzi explained that the Pill Tower could supply the Water of Life needed for the assessment, and Xiao Yang confirmed his choice despite the pill’s difficulty.
• Xuan Kongzi led Xiao Yang to a larger alchemy room with Flame Crystal Stone floor tiles and provided the Life Continuation Pill’s medicinal materials.
• Xiao Yang took out the Heavenly Profound Cauldron and began preparing the materials, while Xuan Kongzi noticed that the cauldron rivaled those on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking.

Xiao Yang refined an Eighth-grade pill while Xuan Kongzi watched in amazement at his unfamiliar cauldron, flames, and flawless alchemy. When five-colored pill lightning descended, Xiao Yang used his body to withstand it, leaving Xuan Kongzi stunned and ready to intervene if he faltered.

• Xuan Kongzi examined Xiao Yang's Heavenly Profound Cauldron and Origin Fire, recognizing neither as anything he had encountered before.
• Xiao Yang extracted every medicinal ingredient flawlessly and completed the extractions simultaneously before fusing them into the pill.
• Five-colored thunderclouds gathered over Pill Tower, and Xuan Kongzi recognized from the fragrance that Xiao Yang had successfully refined the pill.
• Xuan Kongzi offered to help Xiao Yang resist the pill lightning, but Xiao Yang refused because he wanted to temper his body with it.
• Xiao Yang leaped above the Heavenly Profound Cauldron and endured each descending bolt of pill lightning with his body, shocking Xuan Kongzi.

Xiao Yang endured Five-colored Pill Lightning to temper his body and refined a spiritually powerful Eighth-grade Pill. After accepting his Eighth-grade Alchemist Badge, he refused to join the Pill Tower but agreed to become one of its Guest Elders.

• Xiao Yang let the Five-colored Pill Lightning strike him while protecting his clothes with the Myriad Laws Robe, then healed his injuries with the Yang Fire of the Yin Yang Twin Flames.
• Xiao Yang retrieved an Eighth-grade Pill shaped like a phoenix from the Heavenly Profound Cauldron, and Xuan Kongzi praised its spirituality.
• Xuan Kongzi awarded Xiao Yang an Eighth-grade Alchemist Badge and invited him to join the Pill Tower.
• Xiao Yang refused to join the Pill Tower, even after Xuan Kongzi offered him access to a Ninth-grade Alchemist and Pill Tower resources.
• Xuan Kongzi offered Xiao Yang a Guest Elder position, and Xiao Yang accepted and received a Guest Elder token.

After becoming a Pill Tower Guest Elder, Xiao Yang learned about its benefits and planned to attend both of Sacred Pill City’s trading fairs. He entered seclusion to refine pills, discovered that completed missions could offer enhanced rewards, and began making Sixth-grade poisonous liquid to support his cultivation.

• Xuan Kongzi explained the Guest Elder’s duties and benefits, including access to medicinal materials, pill-refining work, and the Pill Tower’s Internal Trading Fair.
• Xiao Yang planned to attend the ordinary trading fair in two months and the internal fair in three months, then returned to his residence and prepared to enter seclusion.
• Xiao Yang created missions to raise his Fifth-grade and Sixth-grade Pill proficiency to Supernatural Proficiency and began refining pills in large batches.
• The system marked both proficiency missions complete, and Xiao Yang noticed that the reward for refining one hundred Sixth-grade Pills had changed to include ten Eighth Order Monster Cores.
• Xiao Yang chose to postpone claiming rewards and created a mission to refine Sixth-grade poisonous liquid for bathing and cultivation.

Xiao Yang prepared to improve his cultivation and pill proficiency while absorbing extensive alchemy comprehension. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan and Elder Yao secretly defeated Han Feng in Maple City, leaving him crippled and sealed.

• Xiao Yang refined Poisonous Liquid, entered a bathing barrel, and created tasks to raise his cultivation and pill proficiencies.
• Xiao Yang was shocked by the rewards of an Emperor Tier Monster Core and an Emperor Tier Medicinal Material, and wondered whether he could gain Origin Qi and new pill recipes.
• Xiao Yang claimed a vast amount of comprehension focused on seventh-grade through Emperor Tier pills and began absorbing it.
• After Xun'er left Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Yan gave up on seeking the Fallen Heart Flame and joined Elder Yao to pursue Han Feng and his Sea Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan and Elder Yao secretly broke Han Feng's limbs, sealed his cultivation, and left him helpless in his palace in Maple City.

Elder Yao confronted Han Feng over his betrayal and learned that Han Feng had turned against him because of the Blazing Art, with Old Man Mu Gu of the Soul Hall encouraging him. After killing Han Feng and destroying his soul, Elder Yao found comfort in Xiao Yan’s loyalty and prepared to refine Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame to help revive himself.

• Elder Yao examined Han Feng’s belongings, removed his Deep Sea Storage Ring, and asked why he had betrayed him.
• Han Feng blamed Elder Yao for withholding the Blazing Art and claimed Old Man Mu Gu of the Soul Hall had coerced him.
• Elder Yao revealed that Old Man Mu Gu had once belonged to his school and had become his enemy.
• Elder Yao rejected Han Feng’s excuses, killed him, and used the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to annihilate his soul.
• Xiao Yan knelt and promised to avenge Elder Yao’s suffering and spare no cost to revive him.
• Elder Yao comforted Xiao Yan and said they would refine Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame, which was needed for his revival.

After absorbing the Sea Heart Flame, Xiao Yan set out with Elder Yao for the Middle Continent to gather what they needed to revive him. Meanwhile, Xiao Yang completed several System tasks, pushing the Medicinal Field Space’s time flow to 5,120 times normal and discovering that centuries had passed inside during his month of cultivation.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the Sea Heart Flame, advancing his Blazing Art and raising his cultivation to peak Dou Wang.
• Xiao Yan told Elder Yao he had gathered three Heavenly Flames and wanted to begin preparing for his resurrection; Elder Yao agreed to travel to the Middle Continent for a Dou Ancestor body and pill ingredients.
• Xiao Yan and Elder Yao set out for Tianya City, where they planned to take a Spatial Wormhole to the Middle Continent.
• Xiao Yang woke after more than a month of absorbing insights and found that his pill proficiencies had risen, completing several System tasks.
• Xiao Yang claimed the rewards and calculated that the Medicinal Field Space’s time flow had increased to 5,120 times normal, with more than three hundred years passing inside during his month away.

After emerging from seclusion, Xiao Yang planned to gather herbs and hunt powerful magical beasts while preparing to attend the Outer Region Alchemist Trade Conference. He reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and the others, learned how their cultivation had advanced, and found that the conference would begin in five days.

• Xiao Yang discovered that many herbs in his Medicinal Field Space and magical beasts in his Magical Beast Ranch Space had matured, with some beasts reaching the eighth grade.
• Xiao Yang planned to hunt eighth-grade magical beasts for their monster cores, essence blood, and meat, and to capture Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beasts at Falling God Ravine.
• Xiao Yang planned to attend the Outer Region Alchemist Trade Conference, purchase herbs, and refine pills as his alchemy proficiency continued to improve.
• Xiao Yang left the Cultivation Room and joined Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and the others as they shared pastries that Zi Yan had found in the Outer Region.
• Xiao Yang learned that Xiao Yi Xian had reached Four-Star Dou Emperor, Medusa had reached five-star Dou Zun, Qing Lin had improved considerably, and Zi Yan was close to Dou Zong; the conference would begin in five days.

Xiao Yang brought Qing Lin ten Eighth-grade Snake Magical Beasts from the Magical Beast Ranch Space to test whether her Jade-Eyed Three-Flower Pupils could absorb their cultivation. The chapter ended with Qing Lin and the others facing the enormous snakes inside the Exotic Fire Tower, ready to test her ability.

• Xiao Yang told Qing Lin he would find special Snake Magical Beasts for her to test, hoping she could absorb their cultivation through her Jade-Eyed Three-Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa gave Xiao Yang medicinal materials they had gathered while he was in seclusion.
• Xiao Yang cultivated with Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa, increasing their cultivation and improving Xiao Yi Xian's soul and physical strength.
• Xiao Yang went out in Sacred Pill City, then transferred ten Eighth-grade Snake Magical Beasts from the Magical Beast Ranch Space into the Exotic Fire Tower.
• Xiao Yang brought Qing Lin into the tower to try enslaving the snakes, while Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Zi Yan joined them and reacted with surprise at the beasts' size.

Xiao Yang helped Qing Lin test enslaved Eighth-grade Snake Magical Beasts, then prepared pills for the Alchemist Trading Fair in Sacred Pill City. He arrived at the fair with Xiao Yi Xian and the others, and they entered without obstruction after he showed his Alchemist Badge.

• Xiao Yang explained that the foolish Snake Magical Beasts could serve as Qing Lin's Beast Cores, and Qing Lin enslaved one to test its effect on her cultivation speed.
• Qing Lin enslaved two more snakes, reaching her current limit, while Xiao Yang promised Zi Yan a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and cultivation pills.
• Xiao Yang cultivated at night and refined pills during the day, and he found Origin Qi in the Emperor-grade Monster Core and medicinal materials he had obtained.
• Xiao Yang led Xiao Yi Xian and the others to the Alchemist Trading Fair, where his badge allowed their group to enter and the guards and Alchemists bowed to him.

Xiao Yang brought Xiao Yi Xian and the others through the Alchemist Trading Fair’s three tiers, shopping for useful techniques, Dou Skills, and rare materials. On the third floor, they found medicinal materials for Eighth-grade Pills and Earth Tier High-level techniques that could strengthen Xiao Yang’s Myriad Laws Incantation.

• Xiao Yang refused offers of guides and led Xiao Yi Xian and the others into the fair’s third-tier area.
• Xiao Yang and the women browsed the first floor for over an hour, buying techniques, Dou Skills, and Special Metal while largely passing over pills and medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Yang brought the group onto the second floor with his Eighth-grade Alchemist Badge, and they bought Earth Tier Mid-grade techniques and Dou Skills.
• Xiao Yang led the group onto the third floor, where experts noticed his badge and were shocked that such a young alchemist had reached the Eighth grade.
• Xiao Yang spotted medicinal materials for Eighth-grade Pills and Earth Tier High-level techniques, then prepared to buy the techniques.

Xiao Yang bought the Ancient Copper Fragment after discovering Spirit Nurturing Dust in its surface rust and traded a copied Seventh-grade High-level Pill Recipe for it. He left the Slovenly Old Man watching as he tossed the fragment into his Colorful Flame.

• Xiao Yang purchased all the Earth Tier High-level cultivation methods and Dou Skills at the jade counter.
• Xiao Yang sensed Spiritual Qi in an Ancient Copper Fragment and created a task to obtain it, earning the Refining Method of Spirit Nurturing Dust and the Ghostly Lock Soul Skill as rewards.
• The Slovenly Old Man demanded a Seventh-grade High-level Pill Recipe for the fragment, and Xiao Yang gave him a one-time-readable copy in exchange.
• Xiao Yang claimed the fragment and walked away with Xiao Yi Xian and the others while the Slovenly Old Man watched.
• Xiao Yang tossed the copper fragment into his Colorful Flame, leaving the Slovenly Old Man curious about its purpose.

Xiao Yang extracted five grains of Spirit Nurturing Dust from the copper fragment and discovered it also held an incomplete chant for the Gestating Soul Art, which he already knew. After intimidating the Slovenly Old Man, Xiao Yang returned home, claimed his mission rewards, and learned the difficult method for refining Spirit Nurturing Dust before deciding to try it himself.

• Xiao Yang sensed an incomplete Soul Imprint containing part of the Gestating Soul Art’s chant within the copper fragment while refining its Copper Rust.
• Xiao Yang extracted five grains of Spirit Nurturing Dust without damaging the copper fragment, and the Slovenly Old Man recognized their value and asked to trade for them.
• The Slovenly Old Man tried to grab Xiao Yang, but Xiao Yang’s Soul Pressure forced him to collapse and silenced the surrounding Alchemists.
• Xiao Yang bought more items with Xiao Yi Xian and the others, returned to their residence, and entered the Cultivation Room to claim his mission rewards.
• Xiao Yang read the Spirit Nurturing Dust refining method, learned its demanding requirements, and prepared to attempt the process using materials and beast souls he already had.

Xiao Yang refined Spirit Nurturing Dust and merged cultivation techniques until the Myriad Laws Incantation reached the Heaven Tier and his cultivation advanced to Six-star Dou Ancestor. As he remained inside the Exotic Fire Tower, ancient figures in Sacred Pill City recognized the strange weather as a sign that a new Heaven Tier cultivation technique or Dou Skill had been created.

• Xiao Yang gathered materials and Magical Beast souls, then refined them into grains of Spirit Nurturing Dust and placed them in his Medicinal Field Space and Magical Beast Ranch Space to mature.
• Xiao Yang began merging six Earth Tier High-level cultivation techniques into the Myriad Laws Incantation.
• When Xiao Yang merged the fourth technique, the Book of Myriad Laws changed, drew in Heaven and Earth Energy, and raised the Myriad Laws Incantation to the Heaven Tier.
• Xiao Yang's cultivation advanced to Six-star Dou Ancestor, completing a System mission and offering him its rewards.
• Dark clouds and fierce winds appeared above Sacred Pill City, and ancient figures concluded that someone had created a new Heaven Tier cultivation technique or Dou Skill.

Xiao Yang completed the transformation of his technique into the Myriad Laws Incantation, causing a phenomenon that onlookers mistook for the creation of a new Heaven Tier technique. After testing his enhanced abilities and leaving the Exotic Fire Tower, he realized the phenomenon had been caused by his breakthrough.

• Xuan Kongzi and other experts witnessed a multicolored sky phenomenon and concluded that someone had created a Heaven Tier technique or Dou Skill.
• Heaven and Earth Energy gathered into multicolored clouds, which formed energy rain that slightly strengthened those who absorbed it.
• Xiao Yang finished transforming his technique inside the Exotic Fire Tower and found that he could absorb nearby Heaven and Earth Energy several dozen times faster than before.
• Xiao Yang tested the Myriad Laws Incantation and recognized that his Dou Zong cultivation prevented him from using its full power.
• Xiao Yi Xian and the others told Xiao Yang about the phenomenon, and Medusa showed him energy rain she had preserved with Spatial Power.
• Xiao Yang recalled that the phenomenon signaled a new Heaven Tier technique and realized his Myriad Laws Incantation had caused it.